Isaiah 47
Mourning for Babylon
1 “ aCome down and sit in the dust,bVirgin cdaughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
Daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you will no longer be called dtender and delicate.
2 “Take the emillstones and fgrind flour.
Remove your gveil, hstrip off the skirt,
Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
3 “Your inakedness will be uncovered,
Your shame will also be exposed;
I will jtake vengeance and will not spare anyone.”
4 Our kRedeemer, the Lord of armies is His name,
The Holy One of Israel.
5 “ lSit silently, and go into mdarkness,
Daughter of the Chaldeans;
For you will no longer be called
The nqueen of okingdoms.
6 “I was angry with My people,
I profaned My heritage
And handed them over to you.
You did not show mercy to them,
On the paged you made your yoke very heavy.
7 “Yet you said, ‘I will be a qqueen forever.’
These things you did not rconsider
Nor remember the soutcome of ▼
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them.8 “Now, then, hear this, you uluxuriant one,
Who vlives securely,
Who says in her heart,
‘ wI am, and there is no one besides me.
I will xnot sit as a widow,
Nor know the loss of children.’
9 “But these ytwo things will come on you zsuddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many aasorceries,
In spite of the great power of your spells.
10 “You felt absecure in your wickedness and said,
‘ acNo one sees me,’
Your adwisdom and your knowledge, ▼
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they have led you astray;For you have said in your heart,
‘ afI am, and there is no one besides me.’
11 “But agevil will come on you
Which you will not know how to charm away;
And disaster will fall on you
For which you cannot atone;
And ahdestruction about which you do not know
Will come on you aisuddenly.
12 “Persist now in your ajspells
And in your many sorceries
With which you have labored from your youth;
Perhaps you will be able to benefit,
Perhaps you may cause trembling.
13 “You are akwearied with your many counsels;
Let now the alastrologers,
Those who prophesy by the stars,
Those who predict by the new moons,
Stand up and amsave you from what will come upon you.
14 “Behold, they have become anlike stubble,
aoFire burns them;
They cannot save themselves from the power of the flame;
There will be apno coal to warm by
Nor a fire to sit before!
15 “So have those become to you with whom you have labored,
Those who have aqdone business with you from your youth;
Each has wandered in his own ▼
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way;There is asno one to save you.
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